On Oct 19, 12:32 pm, ru...@yahoo.com wrote: > On Oct 18, 4:20 pm, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > > > Benjamin Middaugh wrote: > > > Thanks to everyone who helped with my query on reversing integers. I > > > have one more simple problem I'm having trouble solving. I want to check > > > a number for palindromic behavior (reading the same backwards and > > > forwards). So if I have an integer 1457 it can tell me this is not the > > > same from both ends but 1551 is. I think the simplest way would be to > > > work inwards from both ends checking digits for equality, but I don't > > > know enough (yet) to do this. > > > > All help is much appreciated. > > > It's a palindrome if it's the same as its reverse. You already know how > > to reverse it, and you should already know how to check whether two > > things are the same, so... :-) > > Something like: > > def is_palidrome (n): > return str(n) == ''.join (reversed (str(n))) > > which will return True if integer n is a palidromic or False > otherwise.
_Not_ providing the code was MRAB's entire point here. It's nice to show that you're clever and all, but that doesn't really help the OP learn. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
